Finding Persephone: Women's Rituals in the Ancient MediterraneanMaryline G. Parca, Angeliki Tzanetou Indiana University Press, 2007 - 327 strán (strany) Drawing upon the latest research in gender studies, history of religion, feminism, ritual theory, performance, anthropology, archaeology, and art history, Finding Persephone investigates the ways in which the religious lives and ritual practices of women in Greek and Roman antiquity helped shape their social and civic identity. Barred from participating in many public arenas, women asserted their presence by performing rituals at festivals and presiding over rites associated with life passages and healing. The essays in this lively and timely volume reveal the central place of women in the religious and ritual practices of the societies of the ancient Mediterranean. Readers interested in religion, women's studies, and classical antiquity will find a unique exploration of the nature and character of women's autonomy within the religious sphere and a full account of women's agency in the public domain. |
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... cultural practices in the ancient Mediterranean . Such approaches , however , have sometimes been faulted on the grounds that ancient sources are often fragmentary and not easily matched by modern counterparts ( see Lyons's essay and ...
... cultural compari- son to two cultures , he shows how the successful exchanger in both societies is one who is able to use his physical beauty to charm his exchange - partner . Here the ethnographic parallels allow us to attend to ...
... cultural influ- ence in mixed families , see Vandorpe 2002 . 46. Rowlandson ( 1995 , 303-305 , with bibliography in n . 10 ) provides a helpful survey of the evidence for the participation of women in Greek immigration into Egypt before ...
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CRITICAL | 3 |
Sources and Methodology | 17 |
THE SCANDAL OF WOMENS RITUAL | 29 |
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